A Quote

A Quote

Sam, a close friend of mine, and I were having dinner last week and I told him that I had given someone a copy of the Daily Drucker, a compilation of 365 insightful and important perspectives of one of the greatest business minds of our time, Peter Drucker. Unbeknownst to me, Sam was a teaching assistant to Drucker for a number of years and recounted for me that one day he (Sam) was fretting over a problem of the day, and Peter put his hand on his shoulder and said, “Do not dissipate your energy making yesterday go a little bit longer”. Classic Drucker, and it’s not recorded anywhere but here. What’s the point? My interpretation is that the great recession is over, so start focusing on tomorrow. Thanks Sam.

Tony LoPinto is a senior client partner and head of Korn//Ferry International’s Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own.

Job Opportunities

COSTAR GROUP
Research Associate
(WASHINGTON, DC) The associate will grow an accurate and complete database of commercial real estate inventory, for lease and for sale listings, lease comps, sale comps, and tenant data; conduct 20+ phone interviews per day of a portfolio of companies, to ensure all their listings (for sale and for lease) are accurately reflected the database; capture transaction info from portfolio- new listings, new sales comps, new lease deals; and convert leads from outside sources to new transactions and contacts- these sources include web sites, field leads, SEC filings, news stories, and tax records; among other duties

GRAMERCY CAPITAL CORP.
Analyst
(NEW YORK CITY) The analyst will coordinate the preparation of monthly variance analyses for property operations, capital spending, and corporate general and administrative expenses; assist with the company's realty division's (equity portfolio) liquidity analysis, which includes cash forecasting and variance analysis across the entire portfolio and corporate business units; ensure that the corporate financial model reflects changes in liquidity; assist the VP of finance with the preparation of annual budgets for the realty division; among other duties.

PENSAM CAPITAL
Administrator Assistant/Office Manager
(MIAMI) The assistant/office manager will handle all daily administrative operations and organizational responsibilities; maintain calendars--which include coordinating, planning, and scheduling meetings and appointments; compose/type correspondence, contract documents and other reports; and assisting in researching market information; among other duties.

FRANKLIN TEMPLETON INVESTMENTS
Vice President – US Private Equity Real Estate
(NEW YORK CITY) The VP will be responsible for in depth sourcing of private equity real estate fund investments in the Americas; analysis, negotiation, structuring and execution of real estate private fund transactions; analysis of US real estate markets; ongoing monitoring of US private equity real estate fund investments by periodic visits of managers, assets and advisory board/investor meetings; among other duties.

TRIMONT REAL ESTATE ADVISORS
Asset Servicing Analyst
(IRVINE, CA) The analyst will manage daily servicing functions of a portfolio of loan and equity assets and process transactions in a loan servicing system; read and interpret legal documents (such as promissory notes and loan agreements) to board the information to our servicing system and then to service those accounts; update billing records and generate borrower statements/invoices; among other duties.

HERMAN MILLER, INC.
Regional Sales Director
(ZEELAND, MI) The director will leading and motivating our regional sales team to drive new business and further expand the market; interface with customers, dealers and our A&D community; and effectively implement strategic, market specific sales strategies will be critical to your success; among other duties.

COLE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
Vice President of Underwriting
(PHOENIX) The VP of underwriting will ensure the competent and timely completion of all underwriting functions related to analyzing and acquiring prospective acquisition pursuits; prepare detailed investment recommendation reports for all acquisition pursuits; prepare and review single-tenant and multi-tenant cash flow pro forma models utilizing Argus and Excel-based templates.

SELECTLEADERS
Assistant Director of Operations and Facilities Management
(NEW YORK CITY) The assistant director of operations will provide supervision and management of in-house staff and oversee all third party capital, repair, and maintenance programs; among other duties.

Promotions No more than one submission per company will be considered per week.
Submissions with multiple names will be capped at three for coverage in Executive Watch.

JONES LANG LASALLE
(PALO ALTO, CA) Jones Lang LaSalle is promoting Andy Koenig to vice president in the Silicon Valley Corporate Markets team and Chris Crow to leasing associate on the Silicon Valley brokerage team. He was formerly a Senior Market Analyst for Jones Lang LaSalle in Silicon Valley.

FARBMAN GROUP/NAI FARBMAN
(SOUTHFIELD, MI) Farbman Group/NAI Farbman is promoting Julie Durak and Christianna Stempnik to co-creative director.

New Hires No more than one submission per company will be considered per week.
Submissions with multiple names will be capped at three for coverage in Executive Watch.

JONES LANG LASALLE
(PALO ALTO, CA) Jones Lang LaSalle is hiring: Emily Bielen as senior marketing manager, previously she was at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Andrew Boyd is joining as a senior financial accountant, he joins from Maxim Integrated Products; Mark Kindred is joining as senior research analyst., previously a researcher at RREEF Real Estate; Abigail San Juan will be a SVP and group manager, recently transferring from a position as general manager for 201 Mission St. and 580 California St. in San Francisco; and Julie Steffen coming on as assistant manager at the China Transaction Management division.

CB RICHARD ELLIS GROUP, INC.
(CHICAGO) CB Richard Ellis is hiring Thom Tobin as managing director of the assessment & consulting services group.

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Tony LoPinto is the Global Sector Leader of Korn Ferry’s Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. For the past 18 years LoPinto has been serving his clients with deep knowledge and perspective on talent needs and organizational challenges to public and private companies – knowledge gained from a 25-year career in real estate. Prior to his current position, he founded and served as chief executive officer of a boutique real estate executive search firm, where he oversaw offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has successfully led several high profile search engagements for chief executive officers, directors and a wide-range of executive level positions across all industries and sectors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in European history from Loyola University in Chicago.